ENGL 220
Introduction to African American Literature
Spring 2018
Division I
Cross-listed
AFR 220 / AMST 220
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Class Details
What does it mean, socially, culturally, historically, personally, and spiritually, to be African American? No single, simple answer suffices, but African American literature as a genre is defined by its ongoing engagement with this complex question. This course will examine a series of texts that in various ways epitomize the fraught literary grappling with the entailments of American blackness.
Readings will include texts by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 25
Class#: 3796
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Limit: 20
Expected: 25
Class#: 3796
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
writing assignments for the course will total 20 pages, distributed over 3 papers
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
none
Distributions:
Division I
Notes:
meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST or AFR
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AFR 220 Division II ENGL 220 Division I AMST 220 Division II
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AFR 220 Division II ENGL 220 Division I AMST 220 Division II
Attributes:
AFR Interdepartmental Electives
AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
ENGL Literary Histories C
AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
ENGL Literary Histories C
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ENGL 220 - 01 (S) SEM African American Literature
ENGL 220 - 01 (S) SEM African American LiteratureDivision ITR 11:20 am - 12:35 pm
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